How will the nomination of James Comey as FBI director impact civil liberties and US foreign policy Kimberly Halkett discusses with guests David Sirota, a columnist with Salon.com Simon Rosenberg, president of the New Democratic Network think tank and Shahid Buttar, the executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee.

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As President Obama appoints an official to edge the closing of the facility, we ask if any real progress is being made Shihab Rattansi discusses with guests David Remes the legal director of Appeal for Justice a human rights and civil liberties litigation firm who represents 18 Guantanamo detainees Carlos Warner a federal public defender who represents 11 Guantanamo prisoners PJ Crowley who has served as US assistant secretary of state for public affairs between 2009 and 2011.

Koch Brothers Exposed is a hard-hitting investigation of the 1% at its very worst. This full-length documentary film on Charles and David Koch—two of the world_s richest and most powerful men—is the latest from acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: the High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed, Rethink Afghanistan). The billionaire brothers bankroll a vast network of organizations that work to undermine the interests of the 99% on issues ranging from Social Security to the environment to civil rights. This film uncovers the Kochs_ corruption—and points the way to how Americans can reclaim their democracy.
What can you do to fight back? Get the film. Host a screening. Tell your friends. Get the Koch brothers out of the shadows and into the spotlight.
10 Shocking Facts on the Kochs
1. Koch Industries, which the brothers own, is one of the top ten polluters in the United States -- which perhaps explains why the Kochs have given $60 million to climate denial groups between 1997 and 2010.
2. The Kochs are the oil and gas industry_s biggest donors to the congressional committee with oversight of the hazardous Keystone XL oil pipeline. They and their employees gave more than $300,000 to members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee in 2010 alone.
3. From 1998-2008, Koch-controlled foundations gave more than $196 million to organizations that favor polices that would financially enrich the two brothers. In addition, Koch Industries spent $50 million on lobbying and some $8 million in PAC contributions.
4. The Koch fortune has its origins in engineering contracts with Joseph Stalin_s Soviet Union.
5. The Kochs are suing to take over the Cato Institute, which has accused the Kochs of attempting to destroy the group_s identity as an independent, libertarian think and align it more closely with a partisan agenda.
6. A Huffington Post source who was at a three-day retreat of conservative billionaires said the Koch brothers pledged to donate $60 million to defeat President Obama in 2012 and produce pledges of $40 million more from others at the retreat.
7. Since 2000, the Kochs have collected almost $100 million in government contracts, mostly from the Department of Defense.
8. Koch Industries has an annual production capacity of 2.2 billion pounds of the carcinogen formaldehyde. The company has worked to keep it from being classified as a carcinogen even though David Koch is a prostate cancer survivor.
9. The Koch brothers_ combined fortune of roughly $50 billion is exceeded only by that of Bill Gates in the United States.
10. The Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs accused Koch Oil of scheming to steal $31 million of crude oil from Native Americans. Although the company claimed it was accidental, a former executive in this operation said Charles Koch had known about it and had responded to the overages by saying, I want my fair share, and that_s all of it.

This is unheard news of Burma(Located at eastern Asia) where mass destruction of innocent people took place and no media found to publish this news! Around 20,000(twenty thousands) people were killed and terrorized in these regions. Please help them and make Dua for them! Thanks for your kind Support!
(The Mogh slaughtered my brothers. They will kill us all, please help us!)
(The Mogh [ethnic Rakhine] surrounded our village at dawn, The Nasaka [Burmese border troops] were behind them. They set fire to the houses and chopped, hacked and shot at anyone who got in their way. Two of my sons were slaughtered in front of my eyes.)
These dialogs are not taken from any movies or TV serials but these are the voices of innocent Muslims who are being massacred from the place where international media didn’t reach yet. And so called human right commission is acting like blind with open eyes. And their voices are roaming within their own home.
Yes. These voices belong to the people to whom nobody wants to accept them as citizen of their nation. Bangladeshi government saying these people are Burmese citizen whereas Burmese government is saying these people can be permanent citizen of Burma but they can not hold citizenship of Burma.
Now hold on just for a moment. Lets put ourselves in such a situation. Imagine that your rights are not given to you some place, and you were expecting from the third person which was the last hope for help. And if that person denies to help you, how would you feel at that time?
The same thing is happening with the Muslims of Burma who are being killed by the so called peace lover Buddhist in Burma and when some of them were trying to migrate from Burma to Bangladesh they were rejected to enter.
If we believe the news of Burmese media then it is told by them that 3 Muslims were detained in rape case. After that case Buddhist people have started killing the Muslims in that area called as Rohingya. Though Burmese government is lying regarding the number of killing Muslims. Based on assumption till now more than twenty thousand Muslims are killed. And if you see the photographs coming from the Burma, I am sure if you have the soft heart you can not stop your tears.
One eyewitness said that the culprits were celebrating victory spitting and tossing the wine and alcohol on the dead bodies lying on the road.
Abu Tahay who belongs to the National Democratic Party for Development, which represents the countrys much-persecuted stateless Muslim Rohingya community, said that Muslims are being killed like Animals.
Now there are some people who can say that this killing of Muslims is because of that rape case. But this behavior with the Burmese Muslim is not new. Those Buddhist was in a waiting stage to find the excuse to kill the Muslims and this was the best opportunity for them to do these heinous crimes. That is the different story that we dont find any news in our media related to injustice done with the Muslims. Unfortunately majority of our media is in the hands of politicians. The media which is controlled by the politicians can not show the true story behind all these kind of incidents.
On international level if you see this incident, according to Eric Draitser who is the geopolitical analyst for www.stopimperialism.com said
(Many of the conflicts that we see in Myanmar are a product of a proxy war that the US and Western powers are waging to prevent Chinese economic development. We can see instances in Rakhine state, also in Kachin province with a rebellion there. Each of these hot spots in Myanmar represents a key location of Chinese investment in the country,)
This is his analysis, right or wrong Allah knows best.
Allah says in the Quran in Surah Hujurat Ch. 49 Ayat No. 10
“Believers are indeed brothers….”
Whole Muslim ummah is like one body. If one part of the body is in pain whole body feel that pain. But unfortunately today we cant even care whats today is happening with the Muslim in the world. Moreover the so called Muslim ruler who have the power in their hands are also closing the eyes before such events. Today by the Allah s grace we are 57 Muslim countries in the world but none of them raising the voice against this injustice.
Remember o rulers of Muslim countries, Fear Allah, these all innocent children will catch you on the Day of Judgment. Each innocent who is being killed by the kuffars with the help of your petrol, Allah will definitely ask you. For the sake of Allah, feel the pain of this Muslim ummah and use your power what Allah has provided you to stop the innocent killing. Else on the day of judgment you too will be held responsible.
May Allah unite this Muslim Ummah, And guide all of us.
Aameen

Dr. Tariq Ramadan speaks at Shura Council event on April 17, 2012 on Religious Freedom and the US Constitution.
Dr. Tariq Ramadan is a Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University. He also taught at several colleges and universities in different European countreis. Ramadan established the Mouvement des Musulmans Suisses (Movement of Swiss Muslims), which engages in various interfaith seminars. He is an advisor to the European Union on religious issues. He also serves as the President of the Euro-Muslim Network, a Brussels-based think-tank. He is widely interviewed and has authored more than twenty five books on myriad subjects related to Islam, Western World and human rights issues.

In the Second Part Shaikh Yusuf Estes will Discuss the following Topics
Repeat for better understanding / shortening the sermon
& prolonging the prayer is a sign of the religious knowledge /
the way the Prophet peace be upon him used to smile /
Love & dislike with a certain moderation / Dont be in a hurry /
rights & limits / hospitality to the guest & good relation with parents & relatives /
say good thing or be silent / gentle versus harsh treatment /
Repent whenever you commit a sin
On Huda Tv.

Surrey Islamic Society hosted a talk on Islam and The Media on Day Two of its Islamic Awareness Week 2011. This is the Question & Answer session.
Talk by Anas Altikriti and Lauren Booth
Lauren Booth is an English broadcaster, journalist and pro-Palestinian activist. She works for Irans English language news channel, Press TV.In August 2008 she travelled to Gaza by ship from Cyprus, along with 46 other activists, to highlight the blockade of the Gaza Strip and deliver hearing aids and balloons to a deaf school in Gaza. Booth elected to remain behind in Gaza, and was subsequently refused entry into both Israel and Egypt. She said that she believed that, by refusing her the right to leave Gaza and return to her home country, Israel and Egypt were in breach of Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, specifically regarding freedom of movement.
Anas Altikriti is President and founder of the Cordoba Foundation. A leading figure in the British Anti-War movement, Altikriti also served as president of the Muslim Association of Britain between 2004 and 2005.
Altikriti holds an MSc in Translation and Interpreting. He teaches translation and interpreting on part-time basis at Leeds University. He headed the Respect Yorkshire and Humberside slate for the European elections in 2004.
Altikriti organised more than twenty major demonstrations including the demonstration against the Iraq war organized in London on February 15, 2003. He was also special envoy to Iraq to negotiate the release of Western hostages. As a commentator in the International and Arab media (e.g. BBC, CNN, ABC, SKY, Al-Jazeera, etc.) on Muslim and current affairs, he has appeared on HARDtalk and the Doha Debates (both with Tim Sebastian), Lateline on Australian ABC and BBCs Newsnight as well as a number of prominent programs on a variety of international channels. Altikriti has contributed a number of articles to The Guardian, Al-Ahram Weekly and Islam Online.

Surrey Islamic Society hosted a talk on Islam and The Media on Day Two of its Islamic Awareness Week 2011.
Talk by Anas Altikriti and Lauren Booth
Lauren Booth is an English broadcaster, journalist and pro-Palestinian activist. She works for Iran's English language news channel, Press TV.In August 2008 she travelled to Gaza by ship from Cyprus, along with 46 other activists, to highlight the blockade of the Gaza Strip and deliver hearing aids and balloons to a deaf school in Gaza. Booth elected to remain behind in Gaza, and was subsequently refused entry into both Israel and Egypt. She said that she believed that, by refusing her the right to leave Gaza and return to her home country, Israel and Egypt were in breach of Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, specifically regarding freedom of movement.

A documentary to showcase the global struggle of women for liberation. It highlights the failure of the Western capitalist democratic liberal values and system to secure the respect and rights of women and presents Islam as a credible and viable alternative to truly liberate women globally, generate healthy interaction between the genders and maintain strong family units. It presents the truth about the status, rights, and role of women under the Islamic system of the Khilafah state.

The Israel lobby - The influence of AIPAC on US Foreign Policy
English version-- An episode of the Dutch documentary program Tegenlicht about the Israel lobby in the USA. This documentary (April 2007) was created as a result of the controversy created by Mearsheimer and Walt\\s The Israel Lobby article. Featuring interviews with Mearsheimer, geostrategist Lawrence Wikerson, Richard Perle, historian and critic Tony Judt, John Hagee, former Congressman Earl Hilliard, Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch, Michael Massing and Daniel Levy. Tegenlicht (Backlight) is a program from the Dutch VPRO public television.

The Jews are the only people in the world who have found hostility in every country in which they settled in any numbers. The big question is — WHY?Today it is taught in the schools that began in Germany in the 1930s after which they were deported. What is not studied is the fact that at one time or other the Jews have been expelled from every nation in Europe! When the Jews first began to immigrate to America the early colonialists in New York, Charleston and Savannah tried to ban their entry. Benjamin Franklin pleaded with the members of the Continental Congress to enter a specific ban against Jewish immigration into the U. S. Constitution to bar them for all time to come.
The Jews claim that they are a religion. The truth is that the Jews are a RACE. Less than 30are members of any Synagogue. Whether they are Orthodox religious, atheists, capitalists or communists — they still claim to be Jews — members of the Jewish race! Every race has inherited traits. In the case of the Jews they include trading, money-changing, usury, and a loathing for which is scorned as beneath the dignity of the Jews in their called
The Jews have not changed since the days when Jesus Christ took up a whip and drove Jews have always united to form monopolies. Today they control all the department store chains and specialty shops along with the lucrative jewelry and animal fur trade. Jews dominate the fields of all precious metals such as gold, silver, platinum, tin, lead, etc. They will always ban together to drive Gentile competitors out of business.
Today America is being flooded with Jewish immigrants from Russia and even 20,000 per year leave Israel for the U. S. — all with dollar signs in their eyes. Jews have used their vaunted money-power to seize control of the Democratic Party and constitute over 50of all its financial contributions. Today they are buying up more and more major U. S. companies. While only 3of the population, the Jews control over 25of the nation’s wealth and this percentage rises every year. They are the only racial group totally organized to work for political domination over America.
Opposition to the Jews did not begin in Germany but dates back before the birth of Christ over 2,000 years ago! Study the statements made by They reveal why the have made enemies out of every host country that ever accepted them.
CICERO (Marcus Tullius Cicero). First century B.C. Roman statesman, writer.
(Oration in Defense of Flaccus)
Cicero was serving as defense counsel at the trial of Flaccus, a Roman official who interfered with Jewish gold shipments to their international headquarters (then, as now) in Jerusalem. Cicero himself certainly was not a nobody, and for one of this stature to have to shows that he was in the presence of a dangerously powerful sphere of influence. and on another occasion Cicero wrote:
SENECA (Lucius Annaeus Seneca). First century Roman philosopher. (De Superstitione)
DIO CASSIUS. Second century Roman historian. Describing the savage Jewish uprising against the Roman empire that has been acknowledged as the turning point downward in the course of that great state-form: (Roman History)
DIODORUS SICULUS. First century Greek historian.Observed that Jews treated other people as enemies and inferiors. is the practice of lending money at excessive interest rates. This has for centuries caused great misery and poverty for Gentiles. It has brought strong condemnation of the Jews!
BERNARDINO OF FELTRO. 15th century Italian priest. A mild man who extolled patience and charity in normal circumstances, he described himself as a when dealing with Jews: (E. Flornoy, Le Bienbeureux Bernardin the Feltre)
AQUINAS, THOMAS, Saint. 13th century scholastic philosopher. In his he wrote:
HILAIRE BELLOC, in the book THE JEWS, page 9
H. H. BEAMISH, in New York Speech, October 30, 1937
W. HUGHES, Premier of Australia, Saturday Evening Post, June 19, 1919
POPE CLEMENT VIII
NESTA WEBSTER, In World Revolution, The Plot against Civilization, page 163
FRANZ LISZT, famed composer quoted in Col. E. N. Sanctuary’s Are These Things So?, page 278
JESUS CHRIST, speaking to the Jews in the Gospel of St. John, 8:44 (which makes it clear that Christ was addressing the Jews.)
MARTIN LUTHER, Table Talk of Martin Luther, translated by William Hazlet, page 43
REV. GORDON WINROD, in his book The Keys to Christian Understanding, pages 114 – 115 Paul said: (Gal. 1:13, 14, Weymouth Translation).
While in Judaism, Paul persecuted Christians because of his intense hatred for Christians and because of his conformity to the tradition of the fathers. This shows that the tradition of teachings of Judaism are filled with hate for Christians. Few people know of this because they do not carefully read their Scriptures and because of the great pains which Jews have take to deceive the Christians. Care has been exerted by the Jews to hide their ECONOMIC-POLITICAL conspiracy for complete world domination UNDER high sounding words that have a ring in the ears of Christians. The Jews use such sounding words as and like phrases which deceive and lead the unlearned into total equanimity. Behind this mask of religiosity stands a complete plan for world government, world power, world conquest, a Jewish kingdom of this world, and the destruction of Christianity.
REV. WILLIAM S. MITCHELL of Philadelphia, quoted in Count Cherep-Spiridovich’s book The Secret World Government, page 194
ST. JUSTIN, martyr stated in 116 A. D.
ST. JOHN, Gospel of St. John 7:1
M. H. DE HEEKELINGEN, in Israel: Son Passe, Son Avenir and In delivering its verdict, the Court declared ‘INTER ALIA:’ QUINTAS SPETIMUS FLORENS TERTULLIAN (160 – 230 A. D.) Latin Church Father
REV. MARTIN LUTHER, sermon at Eisleben, a few days before his death, February, 1546
MARIA THERESA, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia (1771 – 1789)
(The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia states that of the Jews and that it supersedes the Old Testament. This volume has been condemned down through the ages for preaching hatred for Christ and all Christians. Read for the full shocking details.)
DIDEROT, DENIS. 18th century French scholar. His famous ENCYCLOPEDIE, the bible of the pre-revolutionary French has often been complained of by Jewish writers as ‘anti-Semitic.’ Some of Diderot’s other writings are likewise unfriendly:
F. TROCASE, in Jewish Austria
COUNT HELMUTH VON MOLTKE, Prussian general
MOHAMMED, in the Koran
BACON, FRANCIS. 16th century British writer, politician. In his The New Atlantis, he remarked that Jews He also disapproved of non-Jewish usurers as who would wear like Jews.
LUTHER, MARTIN. 16th century German religious reformer. (D. Boorstin, THE AMERICANS) (NOTES ON VIRGINIA)
BEAMISH, HENRY H. 20th century British publisher. (New York speech, October 30, 1937)
HARRINGTON, LORD. 19th century British statesman. Opposed admission of Jewish immigrants to England because:
WORLD FAMOUS MEN of the past accused the Jews of founding Communism. This charge is well founded. The Communist philosophy was drawn up by Karl Marx who descended from a long line of Rabbis. His ideology of anti-Christian and Socialist thought is outlined in the Jewish which is the of the Jews. Of the four political groups which overthrew the Christian Czar of Russia two were 100Jewish. They were the Mensheviks and The Jewish Bund. The other two were the Socialist Revolutionary Party and the Bolsheviks. Both were headed by Jews but had some Gentile members. Today we now know that Lenin was Jewish and all of the leaders of his first government were Jews. They were Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev and Sverdlow. The wealthiest Jewish banker in the world at that time, Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb investment bank of New York City, gave Trotsky and Lenin $20 million to overthrow the Czar and establish the Soviet tyranny (according to the of February 3, 1949.)
CHURCHILL, WINSTON. 20th century British politician. In 1920, he wrote a long newspaper article of the recent Bolshevik seizure of Russia. After praising what he called the of Russia, he said: ILLUSTRATED SUNDAY HERALD, London, February 8, 1920.)

In 1929, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (Rod Steiger) is still faced with the 20-year long war waged by patriots in Libya to combat Italian colonization and the establishment of The Fourth Shore - the rebirth of a Roman Empire in Africa. Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani (Oliver Reed) as his sixth governor to Libya, confident that the eminently accredited soldier can crush the rebellion and restore the dissipated glories of Imperial Rome.
Omar Mukhtar (Anthony Quinn) leads the resistance to the fascists. A teacher by profession, guerrilla by obligation, Mukhtar has committed himself to a war that cannot be won in his own lifetime. Graziani controls Libya with the might of the Italian Army. Tanks and aircraft are used in the desert for the first time. The Italians also committed atrocities: killing of prisoners of war, destruction of crops, and hamletting populations behind barbed wire.
Despite their bravery, the Libyan Arabs and Berbers suffered heavy losses, their primitive weaponry doesnt match for mechanized warfare; despite all this, they continued to fight, and managed to keep the Italians from achieving complete victory for 20 years. Graziani was only able to achieve victory through deceit, deception, violation of the laws of war and human rights, and by the use of tanks and aircraft.
Although Mukhtar and his fellow warriors used primitive weaponry, Graziani admitted and witnessed his adversarys skill in waging guerrilla warfare. In one scene, Mukhtar refuses to kill a defenseless young officer, instead giving him the Italian flag to return with. Mukhtar says that Islam forbids him to kill captured soldiers and demands that he only fight for his homeland, and that Muslims are taught to hate war itself.Italian authorities banned the film in 1982, claiming that it was /damaging to the Italian Army\\s honor/?!?!?!

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The Ideal Family Unit: The Rights of a Child
7 Habits for Successfully Raising Muslim Children
Eloquent, articulate and outspoken are some of the words that describe Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips. His quest to search for the truth led him from his birth island of Jamaica to the streets of Toronto where he grew up and accepted Islam in 1972. This journey has led him down many paths and he is known the world over as an Islamic scholar, Lecturer, Author and Thinker. Dr. Abu Ameenah completed his B.A. from the College of Islamic Disciplines (Usool ad-Deen) at the Islamic University of Madeenah in 1979, and thereafter went on to complete his Master in Aqeedah at the University of Riyadh in 1985 and finally obtained his PhD from the University of Wales, U.K. in Islamic Theology in 1994. He has taught Islamic Education and Arabic in private schools, lectured M.Ed. students in the Islamic Studies department of various universities and has founded Islamic information centers while traveling extensively across the globe imparting Islamic knowledge as dictated by the Islamic tradition. Abu Ameenah enjoys playing squash at least three times a week with his wife and sons as a means of keeping fit and de-stressing and he also supervises his children in martial arts. It is interesting to note that in his earlier days, he acquired a black belt in Karate. His greatest achievement is the founding of Islamic Online University that has over 3000 students and authoring over 100 Islamic books of which, the fundamentals of Tawheed is his favourite. He currently resides in Doha, Qatar with his family where continues to teach at the Islamic Studies Academy.

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Please help to end all animal torture - including cats, dogs, seals, horses and any other living creature - tortured for profit. From the conditions in which they are kept to the way they are skinned, processed or dismembered and the slow way they die, it's unconscionable. Skinning alive is one of the highest forms of torture, cutting off legs from horses while they are alive also takes place, including stabbing repeatedly in to the spinal cord to paralyse them, animal vivisection and all other forms of torture.

An episode of the Dutch documentary program _Tegenlicht_ about the Israel lobby in the USA. This documentary (April 2007) was created as a result of the controversy created by Mearsheimer and Walt_s _The Israel Lobby_ article. Featuring interviews with Mearsheimer, geostrategist Lawrence Wikerson, Richard Perle, historian and critic Tony Judt, John Hagee, former Congressman Earl Hilliard, Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch, Michael Massing and Daniel Levy. _Tegenlicht_ (_Backlight_) is a program from the Dutch VPRO public television.